I raise, rescue and foster Pyr's and near-Pyrs. They gotta know who is the boss, they have to learn how to be brushed, bathed and clipped. My male, a very tall, big, much loved but very alpha male, just about bows to my husband in the morning and the evening. Alvero has never been punished, but he heard the message very young that he was not the boss. He bosses around the females, the fosters, and guards the chickens and the llamas, especially when the chicks are young and in the house (they roost on his hips and on his leg feathers), and he is fine with that. He is 2.